[PatrickHenry]

Fruit flies are a favorite topic around here. Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 230 names. See list's description at my homepage. FReepmail to be added/dropped.

[mike182d]

“We like to use a Christmas tree analogy,” said Carroll. “These systems already have all the structural details in place, like the structure of a Christmas tree. And all evolution has to do is to alter these regulatory elements mutationally to bring out a pattern — like hanging ornaments on the tree.”

I'm confused. Is this micro- or macro-evolution? Given this analogy, it seems the former is the case.

[DannyTN]

“These systems already have all the structural details in place."

Good Design.

[MonroeDNA]

God invented evolution.

[hgro]

I think there is a fly in the ointment.

[VadeRetro]

“Co-opting” is central to the success of such an evolutionary mechanism, said Carroll. “A key concept here is that this novelty arose from new combinations of old parts,” he said.

"The Designer" virtually never designs anything really new. That makes perfect evolutionary sense, but far less ID sense.

[pharmamom]

The little guy on the far left is kind of pretty.

[Doc Savage]

My pet drosophila melanogaster recently morphed into an anteater. Gee, Darwin was right!